IanFromAfrica
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Hi, haven't done much Amiga stuff for some years now. With this year being the 30th anniversary, I dug up all my old Amiga boxes and had a dig through them. At the time I was last using an Amiga (late 90s), I had a an A4000 with 40Mhz(!) 68040. I sold that but still had some bits and bobs over:
1) My first A500 from 1987 (rev 5).
2) A completely dead A2000 which was good for the PSU, keyboard, floppy drive, front panel and a bunch of chips, including an ECS Denise, 1Mb Agnus & Kickstart 3.1 (40.063).
3) A maxed out A2386 with 75Mhz IBM 486
4) A GVP 33Mhz 040 Accelerator for the A2000
5) An original C= A2320 Flicker Fixer for A2000 (with home made backplate for A4000)
6) Lots of books and disks
So in the spirit of nostalgia, I took the upgraded chips from the dead A2000 and made a 1Mb Chip RAM A500 with ECS Denise and 3.1 KS. Was a bit tricky getting a working WorkBench as all of the WB boot disks I had were unreadable. Eventually, I got that all working, and am currently putting a CF IDE adapter in there so I can boot from Compact Flash instead of floppy disks. The A500 is still boxed and 100% working, so definitely going to hang onto it.
Am selling the remaining hardware so PM me if you're interested in any of it.
1) My first A500 from 1987 (rev 5).
2) A completely dead A2000 which was good for the PSU, keyboard, floppy drive, front panel and a bunch of chips, including an ECS Denise, 1Mb Agnus & Kickstart 3.1 (40.063).
3) A maxed out A2386 with 75Mhz IBM 486
4) A GVP 33Mhz 040 Accelerator for the A2000
5) An original C= A2320 Flicker Fixer for A2000 (with home made backplate for A4000)
6) Lots of books and disks
So in the spirit of nostalgia, I took the upgraded chips from the dead A2000 and made a 1Mb Chip RAM A500 with ECS Denise and 3.1 KS. Was a bit tricky getting a working WorkBench as all of the WB boot disks I had were unreadable. Eventually, I got that all working, and am currently putting a CF IDE adapter in there so I can boot from Compact Flash instead of floppy disks. The A500 is still boxed and 100% working, so definitely going to hang onto it.
Am selling the remaining hardware so PM me if you're interested in any of it.
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